Polish border crisis will fuel Channel migrant surge, officials fear - The Times

Thousands more asylum seekers will attempt to cross the Channel by Christmas because of the escalating migrant crisis on Poland’s border, government officials fear.

Yesterday more than 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel from northern France in small boats, the highest number to arrive in a single day. Three migrants who attempted to make the journey in kayaks are feared to have died after going missing off Calais.

Yesterday’s surge took the number of migrant crossings this year to more than 23,000, almost three times the total for all of 2020.

Damian Collins on Channel migrant crossings

Sources in Border Force and the Home Office said that thousands more could attempt the dangerous 21-mile journey from Calais to Dover in the wake of the migrant crisis that has emerged on Poland’s border

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